Pre-Trip May 2011, The Clampetts take Disney, Anyone reading this? Come on guys join

[SnowWitch]

The Cast:

Starting from the left Cole, who will we 18 this trip, Anna will be 6, Gracie will be 4, and Levi will be 21.

This Tiffiany, Coles girlfriend of almost 3 years by the trip.

This is my nephew Brandon, 9, My brother, and the SIL. They will be joining us for part of the trip.

Olivia is Levis longterm girlfriend.

Our plan thus far is suprise checkin at the Poly for Sat., May 21st for some rest and pool. The Clampett boys rank this pool high on their Top 10 Concrete Pools.

Nice place to recover from an 8.5 drive by a cool pool with a Lapu Lapu or two or three.

Relax and continue the recovery process. Those that drive down with children understand the need for this recovery.

Then dinner at Ohana's. My boys are true carnivaros so they love this place.

Fireworks from the beach. End to a great first night I believe.

This pre-trip report will be a work in progress. We haven't been to Disney since Dec. 2009 so we are all very excited. Our dates will be May 21st-June 4th. We have the entire stay booked at the BWV's in studios. We may decide to change the last 5 ngihts to the AKL villas but I have afew weeks to make my mind up.



Now where oh where will the Clampletts stay. It must have a concrete pond. Right?

Our resort for our adventure!

Concrete pond and all.

 

[SnowWitch]

Not that anyone is reading this but I shall continue anyway. Planned adr's.

(2) Table Serice
1. Jiko
2. California Grill
3. Artist Point
4. Yachtsman Steakhouse
5. Brown Derby
6. Flying Fish
7. Cinderella's Breakfast

(1) Table Service
1. Crystal Palace
2. Boma
3. Yak & Yeti
4. Coral Reef
5. Cape May Cafe
6. Beaches & Cream
7. Le Cellier

We will be going with the Deluxe Dining Plan the first 7 nights of the trip. The above is what I have planned thus far. The last 6 nights we are entertaining not doing a dining plan. We have done the dining plan many times and feel like 2 weeks worth of dining plan may be overkill for our group. Some may ask why not do the reg plan for the entire stay. My thought process is as follows- 1 week of enjoying some pretty good places sprinkled with the kids favorites. Our schedule will be dictated by dining ressies so the last week just roll with the flow, play it by ear,make a few adr's for places that we enjoy the atmosphere but aren't huge fans of the menu an example would be 50's primetime and Sci-Fi. We enjoy both places but have been hard pressed in the past to find an appe, entree and dessert we would enjoy.

Since the deluxe dining plan provides 2 sacks per person per day and we don't snack that much and we will have a frig the last week fo the trip the plan will be to use all leftover dining crdits for snacks ont he last day of the plan. Put those bad boys in the frig and enjoy for several breakfasts.